Revealing mistake: When Slim and her daughter are running away from the husband they run onto a bus. When it cuts to the bus driving away you can see that Slim is holding a dummy, which is supposed to be her daughter.
Enough (2002)
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Directed by: Michael Apted
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Juliette Lewis, Billy Campbell, Dan Futterman, Tessa Allen
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-60/10. Whenever I see a Jennifer Lopez movie I know it's automatically going to stink. This movie doing the cliched ex husband's an jerk thing. Why can't they move beyond this now real old angle? Right, like the wives can't be abusive. J'Lo's a lousy singer and a lousy actress.
Enough has Jennifer Lopez starring as an abused mother who has to go on the run and then stand up to her cheating, awful husband Mitch, played by Billy Campbell. She attempts to turn the tables on Mitch while saving herself and her daughter Gracie in a physical fight after learning the martial art Krav Maga. Wasted characters, very linear plot and a wish-fulfillment ending dressed as "empowerment" subtract from the overall story's impact, unfortunately.
Domestic abuse thriller which focuses on overemphasizing melodrama at the expense of story and characters to make popcorn fans howl when J-Lo gives hubby a taste of his own medicine. This is especially true in regard to the husband's lack of context for his nature and making him into the cliched "Abusive men are all heartless psychopaths" type. It's never explained what he really desires from Slim or his own self-serving agenda, nor how he has all the resources in the world to become an omnipotent predator AKA plot contrivances to move the story along.
Acting was the best aspect, especially from Campbell. J-Lo was serviceable, but this foreshadowed her even more uninspiring role for The Boy Next Door.
I liked it better when it was called Sleeping with the Enemy, which they actually showed you the mind of both spouses and how their actions correlated with each other. None of that here except for Hollywood putting out the generic pure good hero vs, pure evil villain theme.
Instructor: So how do you win? How?
Slim: I attack.
Instructor: And what do you do after you attack?
Slim: Nothing.
Instructor: Why nothing?
Slim: Because I never stop attacking.
Trivia: Sandra Bullock was originally cast to play the lead, Slim, but was unavailable due to another film's schedule.
Question: Slim visits a lawyer to seek advice. How did Slim find out about the lawyer in the first place?
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Answer: She asked a waitress at the diner she was at in the previous scene.
Slim did not ask the waitress. She overheard another person saying the name of the waitress, Millie, and she pretended that Millie had told her about the lawyer. She thought the lawyer might take her more seriously if she pretended to know a local person.